ALUMINIUM 2014 Blog

YE FONG Aluminium Ind. Ltd supplys aluminium alloy material into global market includes large/medium /small size plate, flat/square/round/hexagon bar, seamless tube and special profile extrusion. The alloy consist of 7XXX, 6XXX, 5XXX, 4XXX, 3XXX and 2XXX. YE FONG is very familiar with high strength (hard) alloy, especially 7XXX and 2XXX series material.

Currently, YE FONG has 2 factories which located at Northern Taiwan. YE FONG supplies half of the products to North America and Europe for aerospace applications. The other half of the products supply to military industries, precision machining industries, optical industries, etc.

YE FONG has been approved with ISO9001, ISO14001 by TUV-cert and approved with AS9100 by AFAQ-AFNOR. Under these quality management systems, YE FONG has seriously kept the process control consistently and implemented continuous improve action plan to keep the hardware and software in optimize condition to ensure perfect quality product for customer.
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Aluminium 2010 Stand 4B24

Aluminium is still the material of choice when it comes to building the fuselages of modern passenger aircraft – although carbon and glass fibre-reinforced plastics are now increasingly being used.

Aluminium is still the classic lightweight material in aircraft construction, although the proportion of its use is falling. Aluminium alloys accounted for nearly 80 percent of the material used in the components of the Airbus A320 whereas the proportion in the A340 has fallen to roughly 70 percent – largely due to the increased use of fibre-reinforced composite materials. The dominance of aluminium alloy as the classic lightweight material is set to be challenged as its use drops to below 60 percent in Airbus aircraft in the future. Over 20 percent of the parts will be made from fibre-reinforced composites.

The following example shows how important weight reduction can be, especially in the aerospace industry: The Airbus A310, which is used for short-haul flights, is in the air roughly 3,000 hours per year. If its structural weight is reduced by just one percent, this results in savings of more than 600 tonnes of fuel per year per aircraft. And the savings are considerably greater in the new generation of wide-bodied aircraft such as the Airbus A380, designed for long-haul flights. The A380 itself weighs 277 tonnes, rising to 560 tonnes when fully loaded.

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